Members
are required to complete an application form and submit it with a 250 word
supporting statement. It is important to outline all your experience and areas
of interest to enable us to make the most effective appointments to policy
leadership positions at the LGA.

You
will find the application
form here. We will
require consent from your Group Leader - a consent form is included in the
application form.

Applications
will close at 5pm on Friday 6 July 2018. Successful nominations will be
announced on Monday 23 July 2017.

Appointments
are made by the elected Labour Group Officers, using the principles outlined on
the LGA
Labour website.

News from Wales

A two-day conference organised in partnership with
Cardiff Harbour Authority and The Maritime Heritage Trust took place reflecting on
Cardiff's maritime heritage and the role it has played in shaping Cardiff Bay and
the future of its economic and cultural development.

Making Campaigning More Accessible

Caroline Walsh, a candidate in Eltham North in the 2018
Local Elections, is looking for councillors and council candidates who define
as disabled to share their experiences of being a candidate with a disability –
this will feed into constructive learning and recommendations for the future
for local parties to help make their campaigning more accessible. If you would
like to share your experiences, please email lewis.addlington-lee@local.gov.uk.

LGA Labour Group – new London councillors’ briefing day

The LGA Labour
Group will be holding an event for new London Labour councillors:

The day will be
a mix of plenary and breakout sessions. Speakers include:

Cllr Clare Coghill, - Leader Waltham Forest and
LGA London Rep

Cllr Lib Peck - Leader of Lambeth and Deputy
Leader of the LGA Labour Group

Mark Lloyd - Chief Executive, Local Government
Association

Andrew Gwynne MP - Shadow Communities and Local
Government Secretary

Ayesha Hazarika and Marie Le Conte – building up
a media profile

Cllr Alice Perry – NEC rep

Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan (tbc)

Mayor of Lewisham, Damien Egan

Mayor of Newham, Rokhsana Fiaz OBE

Please note that this event is only open tonewly elected London
Labour Councillors elected for the first time on Thursday 3 May 2018.

The event is
likely to be oversubscribed and will be on a first come, first served
basis. The LGA is currently in the process of updating the list of
councillors but for now we would be grateful if you could pass this on to new
members in your authority.

National Cyber Security Strategy

As part of
the National Cyber Security Strategy (2016 – 2020), the LGA has been awarded
funding by the Cabinet Office to ensure that councils are as resilient against
cyber-attacks as possible.

This
has been agreed with them on the basis of a phased approach. The first phase
will begin in early summer, when every council in England will receive an
invitation to complete an online ‘stocktake’ questionnaire concerning their
cyber security arrangements. Each organisation will have until 31st
August to complete this.

This
week, the LGA’s Chief Executive Mark Lloyd has written to every council Chief
Executive in England highlighting the stocktake and asking them to nominate a
lead contact who can collate their organisation’s response.

By
collecting this information, we aim to:

capture existing cyber security arrangements
in every council

identify good practice – and those councils
delivering it

identify risks – and those councils at risk.

From the
autumn, the findings and analysis from this work will inform where and how we
target support to the sector, including recruiting peers for sector-led
support, and granting funding to individual councils. Councils will be able to
bid for grant funding to undertake an agreed activity or piece of work which
will improve their cyber security, based on the findings from the stocktake.
This will also be open to the Warning, Advice and Reporting Points (WARPs). We
will advise councils on how to bid for this later on in the year.

Labour for a People's Vote:

Labour for a
People’s Vote are campaigning for Labour to support a public vote on
the government’s Brexit deal, and are keen to work with councillors across the
country. If you’d like to get involved or find our more email Mike
Buckley at mike@labourpeoplesvote.org, go to labourpeoplesvote.org or follow @labpeoplesvote.